Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Twins...bottom of first...Angels' LaStella and Trout reached base, but then Ohtani lined out, and Simmons hit into DP...Calhoun on maternity leave...Goodwin in right...Twins make out...top of second...Goodwin with lead off double...Angels made out...to bottom of second...
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LA CHAKANA, símbolo milenario del mundo andino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBgJTvLXA0&t=160s
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Twins score...Twins 2-0...runner on second...that clip is all about chacanas, the ones the Andeans carved in stone, boulders, and their own buildings...lot of them I haven't seen before, and it's telling how widespread they were...oftentimes the chacanas are incomplete, or hard to see...clip relates them to the Southern Cross, which is the four stars on that odd gold plaque...I don't know if that plaque is pre-Columbian, before the conquest...brb....post conquest...it has Spanish writing...brb...Terry and Mark were going on about who is the biggest surprise as new Angel...LaStella being the top choice...and, on cue, he waps a home run!...his eleventh for the season...Trout up...K...two out...Ohtani up...ball gets away on routine grounder, and Ohtani to second on passed ball...Simmons up...Angels make out...to bottom of third...found a checkerboard for the checkerboard collection:
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Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A rare ceramic plaque, square and lightly concave in form with a highly-burnished verso. The obverse face displays a colorful checkerboard-pattern motif with intersecting incised lines filled with red, black, and yellow pigments atop the buff surface. Plaques like this were placed as offerings to Pacha Mama and Pacha Papa (Mother and Father Earth) to insure health among the livestock and among human inhabitants of the clan. Custom suspension hook attachment included. Size: 7.5" W x 7.4" H (19 cm x 18.8 cm).
These plaques were made by smashing large vessels and painting the fragments. They have been discovered in a number of different contexts: beneath wall foundations, in graves, with animal sacrifices, and cached in prominent places in the landscape, like in springs, rock hollows, and atop hills. They are often discovered in pairs, with the painted surfaces placed so that they are facing each other, sometimes wrapped in leaves or even gold sheet. Although the tablet tradition began centuries before, the time period that this one comes from represents the height of the tablet tradition, and corresponds to an intensification of agriculture, the rise of interregional trade networks, and the ascendancy of certain important confederations of clans. Amidst this potent mix, the Inca expanded into the region and the tablet tradition abruptly ended. It seems likely that the Inca, who colonized regions in part by sponsoring local ritual activities, outlawed the creation of religious tablets like this because they saw them as a threat to their trade in sacrificial alpacas, corn beer, and cloth.
https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/artemis-gallery/inca-chucu-terracotta-plaque---checkerboard-motif-1286836
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what a great caption!...plaque sold at auction...
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Si la wiphala fuera un símbolo antiguo rescatado ―como ocurre con la chakana (cruz andina)―, habría piezas arqueológicas de antigüedad que servirían de testimonio.
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maybe I can get that translated...top of fourth...Goodwin lead off hit...Lucroy up...
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If the wiphala were an ancient symbol rescued - as happens with the chakana (Andean cross) - there would be archaeological pieces of antiquity that would serve as testimony.
- In the Tiwanaku Museum of the Department of La Paz there are two wiphalas painted in a qiru (glass).
- In the province of Antonio Quijarro ( department of Potosí ) there is a wiphala together with tissues in koroma.
- In a place called Wantirani, in Qppakati ( Manko Kapajk province , in the department of La Paz ), there is a wiphala painted on a rock.
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that's a tangle...the chacana and wiphala link because they're both checkerboards...maybe both link to the Southern Cross...Goodwin caught off base...I dunno...wiki makes it sound like the wiphala is a will o wisp...too rare to consider serious...but I've found bunches of examples, like that plaque at auction...back to looking for that gold plaque...brb...bottom of fourth...one out...Twins 2-1...
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(1) The astronomical constellation known as the Southern Cross (Alpha, Beta,
Delta and Gamma Crucis). Alpha and Beta Centauri on the left are the eyes of
the Llama dark matter formation (yana phuyu).
Delta and Gamma Crucis). Alpha and Beta Centauri on the left are the eyes of
the Llama dark matter formation (yana phuyu).
(2) The solstices and the seasonal axes of the Milky Way form a celestial cross
called “Calvario.” ACES
Southern Cross: (1) The Southern Cross is a constellation found in the southern region of the night sky. It is the most commonly known, and easily identifiable of all the southern constellations. LTO (Image 1 below) (2) These stars form a bridge (chacana) over Mayu. IGMP The Southern Cross (def. 1) is at the center of Mayu, not because of its revolution around the pole, but because it is the point at which two celestial rivers collide (called Calvario). (See, graphic at Mayu and image 2 below.) (3) The corresponding terrestrial cross, Crucero, formed by the rising and setting of the sun on the two solstices (image 3 below). ACES (See, Mayu for an explanation of how this mirrors the water cycle.)
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hmmph...where has that site been!...it's an illustrated dictionary of Andean things...cool...top of fifth...Walsh up for Angels...optioned Bour to minor leagus...Walsh's rookie game...makes out...Rhenhepo(?), don't know spelling...up...that illustration above is like the 'crossed bands', the Saint Andrew's cross...depicts the crossing of the solstices...between the checkerboard as the Milky Way, and that crossed bands, one about has it in a nut shell that the ancients were attuned to the stars...Trout up...two out...Ohtani up...what happened to Trout?...ground out...to bottom of fifth...
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The Inti "Sun" Temple of the Inca at Cuzco, Peru -- known today as Qurikancha, Qorikancha (Great Churches of the World) viz. Coricancha, and formerly as Inti Kancha in Quechua -- was the most important temple of the Inca Empire.
As will become clear, the temple is more correctly called the Temple of the Galaxy since it concentrates on the Galactic Meridian, in concordance with known Inca cosmology, which focused on the Milky Way.
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The gold main altar wall map of the temple is known to be astronomical, but previous attempts by others to fully decipher the map have failed because researchers have understandably, but erroneously, especially for Northern Hemisphere natives and those used to putting the Southern Cross in the South, thus put Crux, the Southern Cross, near the bottom of the map, rather than at the top, where observers in the Southern Hemisphere would see it in the sky near THEIR celestial pole.
Below is a near facsimile of the original map of Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua, said to derive from the year 1613 AD, so that the map presumably shows the sky at some time in the more modern era.
https://ancientworldblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/qurikancha-gold-altar-map-of-cuzco-peru.html
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Twins' Buxton with two run shot...Twins 4-1...from above site:
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Note here the similar style of cross-hatch stellar notation (here for Gemini) found also on the Cahokia Birdman Tablet, and also featured in a coming posting for Erere (Ererê) in Brazil.
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makes me look...that 'cross hatching' looks 'checkerboarding'...brb...
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Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early in the site's history, the location began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge". The woodhenge was later dismantled and a series of mortuary houses, platform mounds, mass burials and eventually the ridgetop mound erected in its place. The mound was the location of the "beaded burial", an elaborate burial of an elite personage thought to have been one of the rulers of Cahokia, accompanied by the graves of several hundred retainers and sacrificial victims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_72
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eesh...
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On November 15th of 2000, another palm-sized Birdman tablet was discovered in the farm fields along a bluff-base terrace south of old Valmeyer, Illinois, about 40 miles south of Cahokia grounds. It is the first figural tablet known to have been discovered outside of the Cahokia Site. Made of fine grained sandstone, the 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" tablet is known as the Kassly-Schaefer tablet. (As another small piece of it was found on May 11th of 2003.) The Kassly-Schaefer tablet bears an engraved, stylized raptor image that has a slash across the neck portion where the head would have been. Across the top of the tablet (above the slash mark) is a zone of v-shaped lines reminiscent of a timber rattlesnake or a feather. Like the Cahokia Birdman, this figure has one outstretched wing and single angled hatch marks representing feathers. The chest bears two rows of three dots (the edge of the design was broken by the plow). Below its waist, formed by a single line, is a central dot and a triangular apron tied with a sash. The apron appears to be part of a fan shaped tail or a skirt with feathers.
https://www.arrowheads.com/index.php/other-stones-and-artifacts/640-the-prehistoric-birdman-tablets-of-Illinois
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hmmph...Cahokia is in Illinois...and, this:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm?noredirect=on
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too far a reach to see step-fret-triangle in that...sorta...for sometime Illinois!...Lucroy waps a home run...two rbi...Twins 6-3...Walsh gets his first major league hit, a single...runners at the corners...top of sixth...the gold plaque with the SouthernCross is said to have hung in the Inca's Temple of the Sun in Cuzco...the Spanish annotations added...I duuno...that doesn't sound, look right...brb...LaStella up with two outs...fly out...to bottom of sixth...
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Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua ( Viceroyalty of Peru , late sixteenth century - seventeenth century ) was a Peruvian indigenous chronicler , author of the work Relation of the antiquities of Reyno del Piru , of short extension but of great value for the information of ethnohistorical type that provides.
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One of these drawings is a design that supposedly would have figured on the main wall of the "high altar" of the Coricancha temple in Cuzco , and that represents the Andean cosmovision ("cosmogonic map"). Also outstanding in the work are the songs and poems in the native language, which have been cited repeatedly by various critics and scholars as examples of Quechua poetry.
Representation of the Inca worldview by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua (1613), according to an image in the Temple of the Sun Qurikancha in Pachacutec .
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Santa_Cruz_Pachacuti_Yamqui_Salcamaygua
I dunno...was the gold plaque a replica made from the drawing?...looks to be...Twins with lead off hit...woops...another two run home run for the Twins...Twins 8-3...
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Representation of Pachamama in the cosmology, according to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua (1613), after a picture in the Sun Temple Qurikancha in Cusco
Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the earth/time mother.[1] In Inca mythology, Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on this earth.[1] Her shrines are hallowed rocks, or the boles of legendary trees, and her artists envision her as an adult female bearing harvests of potatoes and coca leaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachamama
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In 2012 NBC Universal commissioned me to put together a team of historians and documentarians to investigate the disappearance of the Inca's legendary Golden Sun Disk which was kept in the Temple of the Sun within the Qorikancha (Coricancha) religious complex in Cuzco, Peru. Known as the 'navel of the Earth' the ancient city of Cuzco was the historic capital of the Inca Empire and the disk, which sat at the most sacred part of the Temple vanished just before the Spanish invaded in the 16th century.
https://ashleycowie.com/new-blog/secret-star-map-and-the-golden-temple-of-cosmovision
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a tale to read!...and that's that old movie about same starring Charelton Heston...Trout K...Trout's in a funk...Ohtani up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas
hmmph...Ohtani with base hit...Simmons with a base hit...here a page with a description of the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco...couldn't find mention of map...
https://www.ancient.eu/Coricancha/
Goodwin up...runner at corners, one out...wild pitch, but bounce right back to the pitcher...sac fly...Twins 8-4...Lucroy up...
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Other important functions of Coricancha included the taking of astronomical observations, especially of the Milky Way (Mayu). There was, for example, a pair of towers which marked the Summer solstice and sightings were taken from the sacred ushnu stone against man-made and natural landmarks on the horizon to track the sun. Sacrificial victims (capacochas) were also made ready for their great moment in the precinct's courtyard and then marched along the ceque lines to be sacrificed in the various provinces in honour of Inti and his living incarnation, the Inca emperor.
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Lucroy reaches first...Fletcher up...note ushnu stone...
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An ushnu or usnu is a pyramid-shaped, terraced structure that was used by the Inca to preside at the most important ceremonies of the Tawantinsuyu, or Inca Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushnu
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The ushnu platform was therefore a kind of stage from which the Inca king and his lords could observe and rule over an annual round of seasonal festivals and ceremonial events.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/complete_projects/featured_project_inca_ushnus/what_is_an_ushnu.aspx
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https://smarthistory.org/what-is-an-inka-ushnu/
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well, hooey, it's half a chacana!...a crowstep...go figure...and, that doorway...been there seen that...the crowsteps, step motifs, with the small rectangle in the center...and I was looking for 'ushnu stone'...Angels up top of seventh...lead off hit, second hit for Walsh!...
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A team of archaeologists, working Peruvian Andes, has hailed as ‘sensational’ the discovery of three ‘ancestor stones’ on an isolated Andean mountainside.
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No examples of the stones were believed to have survived until now, and they are mainly known from references in 16th-century Spanish documents, describing them in somewhat contemptuous terms as conical stones, shaped like bowling pins, sugar loaves or pineapples. The 16th-century Inca ruler Atahualpa is on record as responding with equal incomprehension when shown a copy of the Bible by the Conquistadors, which he is said to have thrown onto the ground.
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The three conical stones of red and white Andesite, a hard, granite-like rock, were excavated some 2.5m beneath an Inca stone platform known as an ushnu, at Incapirca Waminan.
https://www.world-archaeology.com/world/south-america/peru/inca-ancestors-stones-found-in-andes/
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that's really cool...I was reaching for those three stones, noting ushnu stone, as I did post about them last season...LaStella with another hit...Trout up...pop foul out...Ohtani up...and, and the Mayans have their sacred three stones, I think...see if I can find that again!...
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At the centre of every traditional Maya dwelling is household hearth, a triangle of three stones. The hearthstones have a sacred as well as utilitarian function. Maya rituals often begin with the centring of the four quarters of the world about the ritual precints. Household rituals are centred on the hearthstones. The Earth-Sky, the dwelling place of humans, is centred on a cosmic hearth, from which the World Tree first rose. The Popol Vuh hints at the importance of the hearth: When the wooden people were destroyed by flood, "their hearthstones were shooting out, coming right out of the fire . . . Such was the scattering of the human work, the human design."
The Quiche still identify the seven stars of the Big Dipper with Seven Macaw. At sunset on August 13, the Milky Way is nearly erect, and the Dipper is visible in the the northern sky in the Maya area. But as the heavens rotate, the Milky Way turns away from its upright position, and the Dipper dives toward the horizon. About two hours after sunset, the Dipper sets: Seven Macaw is knocked from his perch atop the World Tree. Dennis Tedlock reports that among the Quiche, the mid-summer descent of the Dipper just after sunset marks the beginning of the hurricane season, the time of flooding.
https://bookofthrees.com/mayan-culture-the-hearth-stones-of-creation/
hmmph...one never sees the Milky Way from Town...a thought is the Big Dipper could be the stylized step fret...the Southern Cross the stylized step motif...
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Most Americans think of “constellations” as linear figures drawn by connecting individual stars. We often associate them with Greek or Roman myths, but many other cultures attach their own stories to shapes they see in the night sky. For example, the group of stars known as the Big Dipper represents both Ursa Major—the “Great Bear” figure who appears in many stories from around the world—and The Drinking Gourd from American slave lore.
https://festival.si.edu/blog/2015/exploring-with-ellie-surveying-the-skies-over-peru/
that, that's a curio...as the step fret in Mesoamerica is often called the twisted gourd...
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(Boyd, 2016): Context of mural of the White Shaman: “S-shaped weapons such as those wielded by the moon goddess in the White Shaman mural are portrayed in the codices as well. These have been interpreted as ceremonial atlatls representing lightning, serpents, and the constellation Ursa Major (Olivier 2003:206). Ursa Major is associated with the lunar deity Tezcatlipoca, who is often portrayed brandishing the xonecuilli (Olivier 2003:266).”
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/twisted-gourd-xicalcoliuhqui-chaco-canyon-moche-monte-alban-chichen-itza-precolumbian-rainmakers-symbolism/
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A very large amount of Aztec star-lore was lost during the Spanish invasion. A choice few codex were salvaged, and the following constellations were indicated in the memorials of Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, a Franciscan Friar who traveled to the Americas to preach. Sahagun later composed an extensive written work, the Florentine Codex, on Aztec culture and history. One of the constellations he helped to record was ‘Xonecuilli,’ meaning ‘the twisted foot.’ It is associated with the Aztec god Nanahuatzin, whose name means ‘full of sores.’
https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/yawl/2013/04/02/aztec-constellation-xonecuilli/
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Most everybody’s ancestors used atlatls at some time in the past. The only continent with no record of atlatl use is Africa. Spear throwers were invented in the Upper Paleolithic period by early modern humans, who originated even earlier in Africa, so it is quite possible that we simply don’t have the evidence yet for early African spear throwers.
https://worldatlatl.org/about-atlatls/
if the atlatl, the throwing part, which looks like the big dipper, Ursula Major, is a fit, I could 'fit' it to the Egyptians...
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The ceremony involved a symbolic animation of a statue or mummy by magically opening its mouth so that it could breathe and speak. There is evidence of this ritual from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. Special tools were used to perform the ceremony, such as a ritual adze, an arm shaped ritual censer, a spooned blade known as a peseshkaf, a serpent-head blade, and a variety of other amulets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_of_the_mouth_ceremony
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well, Angels top of ninth with a double...Goodwin's fourth hit...Twins 8-4...Lucroy up...I've read said the adz represents Ursa Major, the circumpolar stars...another double...Twins 8-5...the adz looks just like an atlatl thrower, sorta...Fletch with base hit...Twins 8-6...I hate comeback efforts...let's go Angels!...Egyptian had boomerangs...so, why not atlatls???...Walsh waps a hit...his rookie day third hit!...
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Horus applying the 'peshenkepf'' to
the deceased's mummy in the Opening
of the Mouth Ceremony.
I want to also point out that the tool used in the Opening of the Mouth Ceremony is shaped just like an ox's leg - another representation of the Big Dipper. The ancient Egyptians were very clever at using one symbol to represent many things.
http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/2010/11/ancient-egyptians-tracked-big-dipper.html
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about here, I wonder how the Egyptians represented the Southern Cross...it could be the ankh...and here's link to book page that goes on about such, for tomorrowmorrow!
https://books.google.com/books?id=mRVAmMo9in8C&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=ankh+southern+cross&source=bl&ots=Ti0oxpO28w&sig=ACfU3U0V2tkAcOlfciWVmW_foQqVLlg_qg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp4KC8tZ7iAhWQJDQIHaHMC3IQ6AEwDHoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=ankh%20southern%20cross&f=false
LaStella with a hit...two outs...could have scored...and...Trout is up...."boy, is Trout due right here"...0-2...heck...he is really off...1-2...hmmph...hit by pitch...Twins 8-7...Ohtani up...bases loaded...0-1...0-2...1-2...all off speed in the low seventies...four straight change ups...ground out...sigh...Angels a day off tomorrow...
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